Medical Student, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

Kristen Lum is a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to medical school, she spent two years engaged in tobacco control policy research at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. Here, under the guidance of Tom Novotny, she began research using tobacco industry documents to understand how the industry perceived the cigarette waste problem and if they had done anything about it. Kristen's interest in tobacco control is still alive in medical school; besides dreams of a smokefree society with no toxic cigarette litter, she currently coordinates a smoking cessation elective and class at a homeless shelter in San Francisco.